Almaje//Getty Images A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in a day and age where pictures are plentiful and the written word a lost art, a handwritten letter is worth a thousand pictures. Take that handwritten letter a step further and make it a love letter, and you’ve got yourself a priceless memento […]
Artificial intelligence will “strip words of humanity”, writers have claimed after it was introduced as part of the process of publishing loving biographies of ordinary lives. Authors have had their fees heavily reduced after a publisher which offers people the opportunity of having their own biography written by a professional writer adopted artificial intelligence to […]
When I was nineteen and a college junior, I spent what was supposed to be an exotic, sultry, educational summer semester in Madrid. But my long-term boyfriend back home and I had recently broken up, and instead of being excited by my new surroundings, I was miserable. All I wanted to do was to talk […]
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of the new books coming out each month. And, as a result, it’s easy to miss or put off getting books that came out in hardcover, even the ones that garnered all the buzz. But fear not: the paperback reprints of February (also, how is it already February […]
‘Wild nights – Wild nights!’ The energy and exultation with which Emily Dickinson opens this, one of her most passionately felt poems, encourages us to share the excitement and passion, or at least dares us to try to resist it. Although this is not perhaps the opening line of Emily Dickinson’s that most readily springs […]
Rachel Syme Staff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. In 1966, the same year the writer Truman Capote published his masterpiece, the true-crime epic “ In Cold Blood ,” excerpted in this magazine in […]
Visiting assistant professor Lisa Hiton feels drawn to teaching because of its similarities to writing. Lisa Hiton’s obsession these days is slow discourse. Waking up late and sipping on a hot cup of coffee in bed. Sitting in the Amtrak quiet car and gazing at the moving figures out the window with a pen and […]
